In 2006, Kevin Smokler, the speaker and editor behind Bookmark Now, partnered with Chris Anderson, editor of Wired, and software developer Adam Goldstein to determine…
On June 28, 2009, I attended The Flower Parade. I knew nothing about the parade, but learned very quickly that its intent was to celebrate…
I’ve seen wild narcissism from authors in reaction to a review, but Alice Hoffman’s recent tweeting takes the cake. The Boston Globe‘s Roberta Silman reviewed…
[EDITOR'S NOTE: About a year ago, I began a comprehensive history about the expansion of Verizon. I don't know if I will ever finish the...
An Australian television station fell for the Jeff Goldblum death rumor that circulated yesterday and even included a Jeff Goldbum montage in its report. (More…
1. We didn’t have a lot of money growing up. But the first (and one of the few) albums that I had was the picture…
While TMZ and Gawker are reporting that Michael Jackson is dead, I wish to point out that there has been no official confirmation of his…
I received a tip that three producers at the American News Project had been fired. The American News Project is directed by Nick Penniman, who…
The above clip, from The Partridge Family, set a celebratory impulse into motion. Farrah Fawcett was 23. And even within the seemingly vanilla universe of…
You know that cultural journalism is in a sorry state when only four people show up for a screening, and not a single dead soul…
The Virginia Quarterly Review‘s Waldo Jaquith has uncovered several instances of apparent plagiarism within Chris Anderson’s forthcoming book, Free. Unfortunately, I have learned that the…
I was a bookish and uncertain young man bouncing around law firms when a playfully perverse paperback halted my calisthenics on the ontological trampoline. The…
In response to developments at the Federal Trade Commission, I have established an editorial policy, an addendum to a post that I put up in…
Ladies and gentlemen, for those eagerly watching the skies, there has been a slight change in plans. Due to unforeseen circumstances, we will be discussing…
I killed my dad. And then I killed Richard Farrell’s dad.. And then I killed my mom. And then I killed Richard Farrell’s mom. I…
Ladies and gentlemen, during the week of July 13th, 2009, an intrepid team of journalists, unusual voices, first wave bloggers, and second wave bloggers will…
The geeks in the upstairs apartment moved out. I called them the geeks because I always heard the guy drilling holes into the walls at…
To paraphrase Eleanor Roosevelt, nobody can make you feel inauthentic without your consent. And the phony who uttered the onerous words recorded by the good…
Guy Maddin appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #293. Guy Maddin is most recently the author of My Winnipeg, a book version of the film…
Earlier this year, numerous enthusiasts exploded in their pants over a movie that had not yet snagged American distribution. If you were among the throbbing…
On June 12, 2009, I attended a bubble battle in New York. But the event wasn’t really a battle — at least not in the…
At BookExpo America, Wet Asphalt’s Eric Rosenfield entered into a lengthy conversation with Brian O’Leary of Magellan Media. And it became necessary to capture their…
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This post was intended to be a mashup of sentences from posts I’ve had sitting in draft form over the last month. But as I…
t the end of the end of May, edrants.com announced the appointment of its American editor Edward Champion to the role of acting editor. Up…
Walter and Patty Melted were the young products of Franzen Hill — the first dreadful characters to spit out of the misanthropic novelist’s mind since…
It came together at the last minute, but this website is going to be featuring a roundtable discussion during the week of July 8, 2009….
As widely reported over the past week, BookExpo America featured several $249 e-readers. And while I certainly observed many people salivating over e-readers as a…
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